Sub-Saharan Africa is often viewed by backpackers as too expensive, too poor and too dangerous for independent travel. A place better left to wealthy tourists with a colonial streak. Let’s be real, this impression doesn’t come from a vacuum. Across…

This is a tale of how three woman, two babies and a husband climbed England’s tallest mountain. Turn back all ye who enter here. That mountain is Scafell Pike, standing at 978m in the far west of the Lake District…